This collection presents the best and most interesting criticism taken from the huge mass of critical material that has been written about Austen's work. Contents: Along with the usual critical apparatus, Volume I includes sections on Austen's life, publications, and the contemporary critical response. This is followed by nineteenth-century reviews and articles and concludes with a section of Writers on Jane Austen. Volume II focuses on essays on her social and intellectual background and twentieth-century studies of her works as a whole. Volumes III and IV are devoted to criticism of the individual works.

This collection presents the best and most interesting criticism taken from the huge mass of critical material that has been written about Austen's work. Contents: Along with the usual critical apparatus, Volume I includes sections on Austen's life, publications, and the contemporary critical response. This is followed by nineteenth-century reviews and articles and concludes with a section of Writers on Jane Austen. Volume II focuses on essays on her social and intellectual background and twentieth-century studies of her works as a whole. Volumes III and IV are devoted to criticism of the individual works.